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George Eliot
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Standard Name: Eliot, George
Birth Name: Mary Anne Evans
Nickname: Polly
Nickname: Pollian
Self-constructed Name: Mary Ann Evans
Self-constructed Name: Marian Evans
Self-constructed Name: Marian Evans Lewes
Pseudonym: George Eliot
Pseudonym: Felix Holt
Married Name: Mary Anne Cross
GE
, one of the major novelists of the nineteenth century and a leading practitioner of fictional realism, was a professional woman of letters who also worked as an editor and journalist, and left a substantial body of essays, reviews, translations on controversial topics, and poetry.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | George Sand | The sentiments expressed in this and similar novels earned her the nickname the Anti-Matrimonial novelist from the Foreign Quarterly Review. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Literary responses | Jennifer Dawson | The Times Literary Supplement review described The Cold Country as a book in which JD
was a novelist with a mission, and in this respect positioned her with great writers such as George Eliot
... |
| Literary responses | Lucas Malet | Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Literary responses | Viola Meynell | In The Bookman, C. E. Lawrence
welcomed this novel as an individual effort of work which proves that however much she may have studied in the past . . . Miss Meynell has a... |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | In the 1870s and 1880s AW
was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of... |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Bound in with the Bodleian
's copy of ?1795 is a fair scribal copy of Verses addressed to the Duchess of Devonshire upon reading her poem written in Switzerland, in 23 stanzas by W. Drummond |
| Literary responses | Mary Catherine Hume | Bessie Rayner Parkes
recommended this work to George Eliot
. Eliot was not pleased with it and wrote, Heaven preserve me from reading Miss Hume's poems! . . . I was quite cowed by their... |
| Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | The preface was admired by George Eliot
, and Lydia Maria Child
called it a truly manly production: thus we are obliged to compliment the superior sex when we seek to praise our own. qtd. in Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004. 131 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | The anonymous Concluding Remarks supplied by Frederick Greenwood
, editor of the Cornhill, set the tone for responses. He ranked the three final novels by EG
's delicate strong hand qtd. in Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge, 1991. 458 |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Sarah Trimmer
disapproved of Things by their right Names and also of The Rookery, in which she felt the community of birds showed republican tendencies. George Eliot
, who read this book at seven... |
| Literary responses | J. K. Rowling | Of course nobody could review this book without implicit or explicit reference to the Harry Potter books. What, some wondered, would devoted child readers make of the sex and swearing? The novel violently divided commentators... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley
felt that the author was now raving like a pagan Pythoness—the female oracle whose pronouncements were not expected to be comprehensible: There is a positive untruth to the very... |
| Literary responses | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The Critical Review expressed impatience with yet another collection of memorabilia and complained that the book was deformed by colloquial barbarisms. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 61 (1786): 273 |
| Literary responses | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The Saturday Review called Once and Again a great advance upon any previous effort of the writer's. qtd. in Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols. |
| Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. qtd. in Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28. 214 |
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